Oops. Ubuntu, sudo and Firefox Profiles
David Payne
david-KgjyJOZJJiMsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun Jul 22 21:13:27 UTC 2007
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:42:27PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On 7/22/07, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >sudo su will not change your path, so running as root will chown your
> >.mozilla directory. Try using su - instead, or sudo -i works a well.
>
> Ok, now I'm thoroughly confused.
>
> I checked the permissions on my .mozilla folder. They were normal.
> Checked the perms on the executable. Also normal. Tried a reboot...
>
> Now, I'm back to my original default profile, with all my bookmarks,
> history, and extensions. There's absolutely no sign of the two new
> profiles I created earlier - the ones that seemed to have caused the
> problem.
>
> Any idea what's going on here?
>
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Hi,
I can't help fix your problem :-( but when you want to
launch a GUI program as root try gksudoi (or kdesu if you
use KDE). That should have prevented the problem.
This article talks about it:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
Regards,
David Payne
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